QUBIT -- Fast Life

 

Welcome to Monday! Spring is literally around the corner here and yet the temps in Toronto for much of this week will be hovering merely around the 0-degree Celsius mark. It's rather ironic since this past winter has been called by one of the chief meteorologists in the nation as a non-winter. Ailing ski resort managers may have to agree.

Anyways, singer-songwriter and rapper DAOKO has been someone that I finally posted an article about just last fall; notably, her "ShibuyaK" from 2015. She's done her solo work and collaborated with other artists but last year, she actually got together with four other musicians to form the band QUBIT.

Mind you, it's just the one song so far that I've heard, but it sounds like QUBIT may be more into the cute and bubbly technopop in comparison with DAOKO's rap and dance beats. Still, her "Fast Life" from July 2023 has the singer providing the rap amidst all of the fast-moving bleeps and bloops. There's even some piano jazz percolating away in the last half of "Fast Life". In a way, the song does remind me of the helter-skelter nature of navigating Shibuya on a Friday afternoon or night.

The rest of QUBIT is Seiichi Nagai on guitar, Masato Suzuki on bass, Shohei Arimori on keyboards and Kazuya Oi on drums. DAOKO and Arimori were the creators behind "Fast Life" which I assume is also part of their first album "9BIT" which came out in November 2023.